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Air Navigation (Charges) Act 1964

Authoritative Version
  • - C1964A00095
  • No longer in force
Act No. 95 of 1964 as made
An Act relating to Charges in respect of Commonwealth Air Navigation Facilities and Services.
Date of Assent 09 Nov 1964
Date of repeal 24 Jun 2014
Repealed by Amending Acts 1901 to 1969 Repeal Act 2014

AIR NAVIGATION (CHARGES).

 

No. 95 of 1964.

An Act relating to Charges in respect of Commonwealth Air Navigation Facilities and Services.

[Assented to 9th November, 1964.]

BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.)  This Act may be cited as the Air Navigation (Charges) Act 1964.

(2.)  The Air Navigation (Charges) Act 1952-1963 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.)  The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Air Navigation (Charges) Act 1952-1964.

Commencement.

2.  This Act shall come into operation on the first day of January, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-five.

First Schedule—paragraph 7.

3.  The First Schedule to the Principal Act is amended by omitting sub-paragraph (1.) of paragraph 7 and inserting in its stead the following sub-paragraph:—

“(1.)  The unit charge for an aircraft is—

(a) where the weight of the aircraft does not exceed 25,000 pounds—an amount calculated at the rate of 5.9895 pence for each 1,000 pounds or part of 1,000 pounds of the weight of the aircraft;

(b) where the weight of the aircraft exceeds 25,000 pounds but does not exceed 50,000 pounds—an amount calculated at the rate of 9.317 pence for each 1,000 pounds or part of 1,000 pounds of the weight of the aircraft;

(c) where the weight of the aircraft exceeds 50,000 pounds but does not exceed 100,000 pounds—an amount calculated at the rate of 11.979 pence for each 1,000 pounds or part of 1,000 pounds of the weight of the aircraft; and

(d) in any other case—an amount calculated at the rate of 13.9755 pence for each 1,000 pounds or part of 1,000 pounds of the weight of the aircraft.”.

First Schedule—Table.

4.  The Table of Flights set out in the First Schedule to the Principal Act is amended as set out in the Schedule to this Act.

Application of amendments.

5.  The amendments made to the Principal Act by this Act—

(a) apply in relation to a charge payable—

(i) in respect of a flight between places in Australia that is completed on or after the date of commencement of this Act;

(ii) in respect of the landing or take-off of an aircraft on or after that date;


 

(iii) by the registered owner of an aircraft in respect of a period that commences on or after that date; and

(iv) by the owner of a foreign aircraft, as defined by the Air Navigation Regulations, in respect of a week or a part of a week that commences on or after that date; and

(b) do not affect the application of the Principal Act in relation to any other charges.

 

THE SCHEDULE.                                          Section 4.

AMENDMENTS OF THE TABLE OF FLIGHTS IN THE FIRST SCHEDULE TO THE PRINCIPAL ACT.

After item 7, insert the following item:—

“7a

Sydney-Albury.............................................................................................................

2”.

Omit item 25, insert the following item:—

“25a

Sydney-Coolangatta...................................................................................................

3”.

After item 26, insert the following item:—

“26a

Sydney-Coonabarabran............................................................................................

2”.

After item 29, insert the following item:—

“29a

Sydney-Corryong........................................................................................................

2”.

After item 52a, insert the following item:—

“52b

Sydney-Merimbula.....................................................................................................

2”.

After item 55, insert the following item:—

“55a

Sydney-Mount Isa......................................................................................................

7”.

After item 67a, insert the following item:—

“67b

Sydney-Quirindi...........................................................................................................

2”.

After item 129, insert the following item:—

“129a

Brisbane-Taroom........................................................................................................

2”.

After item 137, insert the following item:—

“137a

Melbourne-Albury.......................................................................................................

2”.

Omit item 141.

Omit item 146, insert the following item:—

“146

Melbourne-Coolangatta.............................................................................................

7”.

After item 171, insert the following item:—

“17la

Melbourne-Warracknabeal.......................................................................................

2”.

After item 189, insert the following item:—

“189a

Adelaide-Millicent.......................................................................................................

2”.

After item 190, insert the following item:—

“190a

Adelaide-Naracoorte...................................................................................................

2”.

After item 191, insert the following item:—

“191a

Adelaide-Oodnadatta.................................................................................................

3”.

After item 210, insert the following items:—

“210a

Perth-Kununurra..........................................................................................................

7

“210b

Perth-Laverton.............................................................................................................

2”.

After item 224, insert the following item:—

“225

Perth-Shark Bay..........................................................................................................

2”.

Omit item 228, insert the following items:—

“227a

Hobart-Flinders Island................................................................................................

2

“228

Hobart-Launceston.....................................................................................................

1”.

After item 229, insert the following item:—

“229a

Hobart-Smithton.........................................................................................................

2”.

After item 238a, insert the following item:—

“238b

Darwin-Mount Isa.......................................................................................................

4”.

Omit item 292a.

After item 297, insert the following item:—

“297a

Tamworth-Coolangatta.............................................................................................

2”.

Omit item 302, insert the following item:—

“302

Townsville-Cairns........................................................................................................

1”.